The old lady took pity on the young man who had nowhere to spend the night: that night the woman woke up to the sound of the young man slowly coming into her room, approaching the bed — and doing this… 😨😱
The young man was simply in a hopeless situation, with no one to turn to. Relatives had turned away, and he had no friends left.
So a distant relative, a good-natured but naive man, thought that since the familiar old lady lived alone in a large apartment, why not let her take in a lodger — she would be less lonely, and he would have a safe place to sleep under a roof.
The young man was about twenty-five; he came to the old lady with a small rucksack in which barely fit a couple of shirts, a notebook and an old photograph of his parents.
He looked quiet, modest, even shy. When the grandmother saw him something stirred in her heart — she felt pity, as if he were her own.
She immediately brought the young man into the house, hurriedly asked if he had eaten that day, whether he wanted some potatoes with onions, and promised porridge in the morning. She even allowed him to wear the old clothes of her son, who had long since moved away and rarely called.
